70 percent u.s. adults vaccinated?

[ret5hd]

This sounds high to me. Am I behind on things?

[SoCalNative]

1. 70%

have received at least one dose.

[ret5hd]

2. It's just when I hear about places like MO, AR, OK...

TX, ND, MS, etc etc etc…that number just seems high.

[SheltieLover]

3. Agreed, but

There are large concentrations of sane people in large metro areas.

[leftieNanner]

5. Overall Oregon (my state) is doing pretty well

But the county where I live is full of anti-vaxxers (not just for Covid) and it was reported the other day that only 46% are vaccinated.

[tibbir]

13. Texas certainly hasn't reached 70%

but the percentage of the state with at least one vaccination is 62% according to the health department.

[mcar]

4. Reached it yesterday

[madville]

6. Many experts are also quickly distancing themselves from the herd immunity concept

With Delta it is looking like herd immunity may not be a viable strategy. Certainly we can potentially get regular boosters that account for new variants but the idea that one round of vaccine or a COVID infection gives one immunity is kind of out the window now.

A coworker returned to work yesterday, he had COVID last year, verified with multiple tests. Got vaccinated in January with the Pfizer vaccine. He just returned after getting infected with Delta, all he had was a sniffle and mild fever though.

[Hortensis]

14. As you say. We're so fortunate here in the U.S. Stupid

and many nihilistically self destructive without knowing it, but incredibly fortunate anyway. We'll do it.

[CentralMass]

7. It is at about 50% for thise who have had both shots.

[FightingIrish]

8. That's if you count Republicans as adults.

If not, it’s much higher.

[mvd]

22. Lol

Good one.

[Marius25]

9. 70% have at least one dose.

But that's not consistent nationally. For example, New England is probably closer to like 90% having at least one dose, whereas Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, etc. are more like 40% have one dose.

[global1]

12. The Second Dose Follows-Up 2 To 3 Weeks After The First Dose.....

Shouldn't we be able to predict when 70% are fully vaccinated based on that?

[brush]

10. Yeah, you're behind. At the end of June 67% had had at least one shot.

Now with the latest surge to get vaccinated because of the delta variant we reached 70% with at least one shot a month later than Joe Biden's original goal date...which was July 4.

[Celerity]

11. Per CDC data released Sunday, 49.6% of the US population is fully vaccinated.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/01/health/covid-19-vaccine-doses-administered/index.html

[Sympthsical]

15. I don't understand why they include one shot in that data point

One shot is not vaccinated.

Two shots is.

Not all people get a second shot for whatever reason (it is a little odd, but people have their reasons).

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. One shot if it's J&J.

Plus, even one shot of the other two gives pretty decent protection. Better than no shot at all.

[Sympthsical]

19. You're right, I forgot about that

I wonder how they're parsing that with the data.

Though, J&J is terrible for the Delta variant.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. I've read that it's as good as the others.

I got the J&J and while I'm well aware of "breakthrough" infections, I'm not at all concerned.

If and when the CDC says a booster is a good idea, I'll get one.

[Hortensis]

16. We've arrived at what's clearly an inflection point in attitudes

toward the pandemic and its spreaders.

Courtesy of Delta and its especially rapacious hunger for hosts, including young people and even going after children.

And the resentment of those who got vaccinated and thought is was almost over.

[milestogo]

17. A few weeks ago it was 48%

I can't account for the change.

[malaise]

20. M$Greedia is going out of their way to say that he promised this

by July 4 - what they are not saying is that 67% were vaccinated by July 4

[malaise]

21. M$Greedia is going out of their way to say that he promised this

by July 4 - what they are not saying is that 67% were vaccinated by July 4